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Photed by Mr.Yd at FunkyMonkeyHostel


FunkyMonkeyHostel * has 2 rooms of 16 beds dorm, and usually they use only one room of 16 beds, you can always stay there without any reservation. We must take off our shoes in this hostel, so if you feel taking off shoes is uncomfortable, I recommend DD2, Ban Mixay, Norkeokoummane RD, opposite side of Douang Deuane Hotel, north side of RD Guesthouse, next to Mixay Guesthouse. Tel:856-21-254806&7 E-mail:DD2_Dorm@hotmail.com private single fan room 40,000 kip / day. This hostel doesn't have website and maybe always has vacancies.

From Vientiane central bus station to Nongkhai costs only 15,000 kip, from Nongkhai to Vientiane costs 55 bahts, Departure timings are just same as from Vientiane. Counter staff can't accept Lao kip in Nongkhai, there are some restaurants near Nongkhai bus station, and you can change money at a restaurant which has a lady who can speak Thai Lao Chinese English language. When go back from Nongkhai, we must pay 1000 kip or 5 bahts at friendship bridge, please check the counter to get pass card before fill out your passport information in Laos.

We can buy AirAsia ticket at a lot of travel offices in Vientiane, using staff's VISA card with paying fee $10. But if you can, it is better to go to Bangkok international airport to buy air ticket. At airport, staffs are very kind and smooth to contact. Maybe it is dangerous to use own VISA card, if PC monitor shows "error" and you payed again, it is hard to ask AirAsia to pay back. Once you payed, you can't cancel whenever something happened with you.

Please be careful of using VISA card^^.

Photoed by Niha

I was photoed by my roommates at Mysore Youth Hostel yesterday afternoon. I think maybe this youth hostel is the cheapest in this world, student:75 Rs/day, not student:100 Rs/day without Youth Hostel membership card.
I searched at website of hosteling international, the cheapest hostel in India is Bangalore Youth Hostel with membership card as 100 Rs/day, but there isn't Mysore youth hostel. Maybe there are a lot of youth hostels cheaper than $2/day.
It is hard to find a room to live in India, especially for foreign women. Indian women also can't live in one room by oneself, because they believe that it is very dangerous to live alone. It is better to live in ladies PG(dormitory with every meal), but all of them require ID proof in India, can't accept tourists without Indian certification. They never believe who came from other countries.

For example, Sri Vishwakarma Hostel opposite side of Mysore Youth Hostel is only for gents, costs 16,000 Rs/year includes meals. I want to stay at more cheaper hostel.


My English is very poor, but I can't input Japanese language at internet cafe in India now. Regional and Language Options don't have language between Italian and Kazakh, neither Chinese nor Korean language. I don't know why Ajax IME also doesn't work. It is very hard to use PC in internet cafe because a lot of internet cafes are full of children(only boys) and students, playing games or writing reports for a long time. There are no wifi in a lot of hostels and cafes in Bangalore. There isn't internet cafe near Bangalore Youth Hostel, Bangalore Youth Hostel provides Wifi service 20Rs/hour, after every 1 hour, staffs turn off the wifi system. Only a few people use PC in the hostel, not similar to hostels in Thailand or Laos. Mysore Youth Hostel doesn't have Wifi, but there are 3 internet cafes near hostel, very few people use PC in Mysore, so I can use as this^^.

Photed by Bageshi